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Humor is the affectionate communication of insight.
- Rosten, Leo
Humor Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Humor

1.
They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.
Hemingway, Ernest

2.
A poor joke must invent its own laughter.
Proverb, Latin

3.
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Bonaparte, Napoleon

4.
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpole

5.
I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Nelson, Lord

6.
Even the gods love jokes.
Plato

7.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono

8.
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
Zimmermann, Johann Georg

9.
The absolute truth is the thing that makes people laugh
Reiner, Carl

10.
Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
Martin, Steve

11.
By blood a king, in heart a clown.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

12.
A jest often decides matters of importance more effectual and happily than seriousness.
Horace

13.
Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
Twain, Mark

14.
Life is tough, and if you have the ability to laugh at it you have the ability to enjoy it.
Salma Hayek

15.
What's the point of havin'a rapier wit if I can't use it to stab people?
Jeph Jacques

16.
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Colby, Frank Moore

17.
The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.
Eco, Umberto

18.
The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
Colton, Charles Caleb

20.
WARNING: Humor may be hazardous to your illness.
Katz, Ellie

21.
Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
Smith, Alfred E.

22.
We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

23.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks

24.
The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts.
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

25.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Charlie Chaplin

26.
The comic and the tragic lie inseparably close, like light and shadow.
Socrates

27.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
E. B. White

28.
I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
Johnson, Samuel

29.
Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
Borge, Victor

30.
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.
Kleiser, Grenville

31.
Burt Reynolds once asked me out. I was in his room.
Diller, Phyllis

32.
Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place.
Mark Twain

33.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
James Thurber

34.
Humor is everywhere, in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
Bill Nye

35.
Fortune and humor govern the world.
La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

36.
As a person is so must you humor them.
Terence

37.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
Clark, Dick

38.
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Muggeridge, Malcolm

39.
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here.
Truman, Harry S

40.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Dick Clark

41.
Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.
Seabury, David

42.
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten.
Rourke, Constance

43.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
Muir, Frank

44.
The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.
James Thurber

45.
A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

46.
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
David Nicholls

47.
For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Sterne, Laurence

48.
Where ever you find humor, you find pathos close by it side.
Whipple, Edwin P.

49.
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Irving, Washington

50.
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life. Its mode has often been swift and coarse and ruthless, beyond art and beyond established civilization. It has engaged in warfare against the established heritage, against the bonds of pioneer existence. Its objective --the unconscious objective of a disunited people --has seemed to be that of creating fresh bonds, a new unity, the semblance of a society and the rounded completion of an American type.
Rourke, Constance


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